Movie: Burnt

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This film was released in 2015 with a rating of R for language though the film. It stars Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Daniel Bruhl. Adam Jones, played by Cooper, is a chef who destroyed his career with drugs and his behavior. He cleans up his act and stops drinking, returning to London to open a restaurant and try to achieve three Michelin stars. The plot was not something I had seen before, and the acting was mostly good. It lacked something though, when I thought about it, I realized there were a lot of shots of food half being made but didn’t really give me much on his background. They give us bits and pieces of what happened in Paris but never really tell us. For me, I could have used less of the shots of food, though I must admit some of it really made me hungry. The film runs for one hour and 41 minutes, maybe they could have hit the 2-hour mark and gave us a few more details. I would give it at most 3 out of 5 stars and a big part of that is due to a plot I have not seen, and the acting was good.